The Red Thread The Passaic Textile Strike
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This book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers' struggle in the United States, captured the nation's imagination and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later in the Great Depression.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781978809901 |
Publisher: | Rutgers University Press |
Imprint: | Rutgers University Press |
Pub date: | 16 Jul 2021 |
DEWEY: | 331.89287700974923 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | x, 233 |
Weight: | 458g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |